"I listen to Anti from top to bottom with no shame. I used to always have shame. I actually don't like listening to my music, but Anti—I can listen to the album," Rihanna said. "It's not me singing it, if I'm just listening to it. That's the one album that I can have an out-of-body experience where it's not like … You know when you hear your voice in a voicemail, and it's like, 'Ugh.'"
"I think music is my freedom. I just came to that realization," she added. "I just cracked the code on what I really want to do for my next body of work."